Six lectures on model theory and differential-algebraic geometry

Abstract

This is a write-up of some lectures I gave in the Fall of 2021 at the Fields Institute in Toronto, as part of the Thematic Programme on Trends in Pure and Applied Model Theory. The goal of the module was to give a quick introduction to the model theory of differential fields that puts differential-algebraic geometry at the center. I focus here on the birational geometry of algebraic vector fields and more generally $D$-varieties in the sense of Buium.